The opening lines of The Go-Between by L P Hartley are a brilliant introduction to the novel. The past is a foreign land, they do things differently there. And so the reader is immediately transported to another world and another time. So it is with a painting which is of the past and yet timeless. […]
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With their white sands washed by the green waters of the Atlantic the beaches of Morar are today an idyllic haven of peace. So it is for the visitor walking barefoot along the shoreline of Loch Morar who would feel there are few such places of tranquility. But look back in history and dark pages
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Where the pines reach down to the shore with hollows sheltering nesting plovers there lies a world remote from the clamour of humanity. So tread gently, listen to the rustle of the marram grass and the sigh of the shingle for you are part of a day that you share with others that you cannot
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While the Hunters in the Snow has decorated innumerable cards and calendars the painter Pieter Bruegel remains a mysterious figure. With the people in his paintings dressed in the smocks and bonnets of the 16th century it is easy to assume that Bruegel was one of their number for how else could he have achieved
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